According to his death certificate, Claud Sagraves died of pneumonia at the Kentucky State Penitentiary after being shot in the left shoulder on 3 Oct 1913. That certificate cited his residence there as 8 years and 15 days and his usual residence as Lawrence County, KY. However, Claud Sagraves, age 20, appears to be on the 1910 census in Lawrence County as a farm laborer for John L. Skaggs, and 8 years prior to 1913 he would have been 15 years old.
More research is required to determine the fate of this young man.

According to his Findagrave.com entry,
"While no stone has been found at Old Shores or Shores Baptist Cemetery, Wiley Seagraves' death certificate indicates that he was buried at "Shores Cemetery". Find A Grave contributor JGVols indicates that he is not buried in Shores Baptist Cemetery, thus the memorial for him placed at Old Shores."

According to his obituary in the Wilmington, DE News Journal of Sat. 29 Feb 1992, "Andrew Franklin Seagraves, Jr., 77, of Guernsey Street, Orlando, FL, died Thursday of emphysema in Manor Care Nursing Home, Winter Park, where he was a patient.
"Mr. Seagraves was a self-employed salesman.
"He was born in Delaware City, Del., and moved to Florida in 1959.
"His wife, Jean Cannan Seagraves, died in 1989. He is survived by a son, George of Mount Olive, NC; five daughters, Nancy Smith, Alene Seagraves, Andrea Murphy and Jean BYbee, all of Orlando, and Alma Byers of Jacksonville; five brothers, Everett and Richard, both of Salem, NJ, and William, Charles and Seburn, all of Orlando...
"Graveside services will be at...Woodlawn Memorial Park, Orlando"

According to the "Cape May Spray" by Charles Tomlin, Bradley Brothers, Philadelphia, 1913, "There is a deed for a colored burying ground a mile or two north of Cape May Court House, one grave has a marked granite stone on which is cut the name Angelina Taylor. Several persons who had been slaves are said to have been buried there. Among them Aunt Thilda, Cupbalo and wife, Prudie. Aunt Peggy Seagraves Uncle Alpheus Seagraves Sr., Alpheus Seagraves, Jr."

According to the "Genealogy of Seagraves Sampson and Kindred Lines by Faye S. Seagraves, Mary Louise "Graduated from Mills College and for many years pursued a career ...for the Home-Savings and Loan Association..." "She never married."

According to the 1900 and 1910 censuses Mary was born in Illinois and the Cook County, Illinois Deaths Index, 1878-1922 gives her specific birth date and her birth place as Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, but the Michigan Marriage Records, 1867-1952 lists her as born in Spring Lake, Ottawa County, Michigan where the wedding took place.
Our conclusion is that she was more likely an Illinois native.

According to the Anchorage Daily News of 26 May 1990, Cathlia M. Seagrave was a "longtime Alaska resident and retired bar owner.
She "was born 20 Feb 1915. She came to Alaska in the early 1940s and worked as a cook and drugstore clerk in Valdez for several years. She and her husband owned and operated the Old Club Bar in Valdez before moving to Kodiak. In Kodiak, they ran the Town Club until selling it and moving back to Valdez. Later, they opened The Glacier Bar, which she ran until retiring about four years ago. Mrs. Seagrave was a charter and life member of the Eagles Auxiliary No. 1971 in Valdez."

According to the California Death Index she died as Ruby Jewel Chatman born 13 Apr 1916 in Texas. Her entry on Findagrave.com lists her as Rubil Jewel "Ruby" Seagroves Chatman and confirms her place of death as San Joaquin County, California but shows her burial place as "unknown". Her husband, Grover Mathues Chatman had died in 1974 and was buried in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, but no wife is listed there with him and no search of Findagrave.com reveals a Ruby Cooper or a Ruby Chatman who died in 1987.

According to the Genealogy of the Seagraves and Sampson Families Dallas "served in Co. A, 3rd Eng. Bn...in WW II and was stationed at Forth Leonard Wood, MO. He made his home in the old family home where he was born. He was a carpenter until he retired and is interested in painting, having done many oil paintings for friends and family and is an avid fisherman and hunter."

According to the Genealogy of the Seagraves and Sampson Families, Henry (Harry) "became a blacksmith apprentice for Studebaker Carriage Company by the time he was 15 years old. soon the West was beckoning...so young Harry, who had been christened Henry changed his name and traded shares of stock his father had given him for a horse and started off. Blacksmiths were always in demand, but the traveling was slow. He worked for a carriage company in Ohio and also in Indiana. Deadwood, South Dakota was another stopping off place, here he made horseshoes for Custer's Regiment and fled the Indians across Montana after Custer's Last Stand in 1876. One day he ran off a begging squaw, that night he woke to find the work he was doing for the US government on fire. He moved on. The Coeur d'Alene gold excitement was at its height....he prospected in Butte, Montana, spent some time in Burke and Waliaco before moving on to Coeur d'Alene...His first home was a log cabin on Fernan Hill, only a short distance from where he would later build a larger log home overlooking both Coeur d'Alene and Fernan Lakes."

According to the Hartford Times in "US Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930" Sarah jane Seagrove married D. W. Barrows on 6 Feb 1854 in South Coventry, Windham County, CT. The Genealogy of the Seagrave Family may have been saving a reputation by showing a marriage date one year earlier since their first child was born 10 Jan 1854.

According to The History of Pettis County, Missouri, 1882, page 1100 "Marshall Seagraves was born in the Township [Lake Creek Township] in 1820, and was perhaps the first white child born in the township. He is now dead."

Also according to The History of Pettis County, Missouri, 1882, page 1100 "A few of the pioneers of the township [Lake Creek Township] are Jacob Seagraves, who came in 1819 from Tennessee."

While the source does not state it, it is implied that Jacob was the father of Marshall. It is not clear how the census recordings for Marshall are inconsistent with these statements. On both the 1850 and 1860 censuses for Pettis County Marshall is shown to have been born in Kentucky about 1808 or 1809.
We believe that it is more likely that the census records which are consistent with each other are correct and that the History is based on local beliefs and stories which are not.

According to the Segrave/Seagraves and Related Families of Northeast Georgia Erastus was born in 1902 in spite of his tombstone reading of 1899 based on family sources; and in spite of Erastus being listed on the 1900 census with his family as being 2 years old and born in Apr 1898.

After Edgar died in 1904 Lottie married William Henry Clapp in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA according to Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915.
That source shows her parents as Godfrey Sargent and Emma Wood.

Again there is a difference between the death date given by his grandson, Carl Lee Segraves, of 23 Feb 1957 and the Findagrave.com memorial showing it as 18 Oct 1957.
In this case the FAG date, while unsubstantiated, may be more accurate.

Albert was born, possibly a son of Charles Seagraves, in North Carolina based on his 1840 census age range of 20-29 suggesting a birth year of 1811 to 1820; his 1850 census age of 35, suggesting a birth year of 1815; his 1860 census age of 46, suggesting a birth year of 1814; his 1870 census age of 56, suggesting a birth year of 1814; and his 1880 census age of 66, suggesting a birth year of 1814.